Curator's Key

John McCracken, “Red Pyramid” (1974)

by Pádraic E. Moore

“...McCracken’s references to interdimensional portals and UFOs encouraged viewers to question what an art object is, how it can function or perform. McCracken stated that he wanted his works to be ‘terrifically physical and absolutely transcendental at the same time’...”

The Good Life was a popular British sitcom about a suburban couple who tried to escape modern life and go “back to the land” of Surbiton, South West London in which the “radical thinking” of the counter culture finds synergy with middle class (yuppie) Britain.